Judging Socialist Reform

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEC STONE
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Constitutional Politics ◽  
Political Interaction ◽  
Legislative Processes

Case studies of judicial-political interaction during two periods, 1969-1976 in Germany and 1981-1985 in France, illustrate two general points about constitutional politics in both countries. First, constitutional courts are powerful policy makers whose impact on legislative processes and outcomes is multidimensional. These courts are more than simply negative legislators, empowered to veto legislative provisions. They also exercise creative legislative powers: to recast policy-making environments, to encourage certain legislative solutions while undermining others, and to have the precise terms of their decisions written directly into legislative provisions. Second, governments and parliamentarians are often led to behave judicially, to debate and make meaningful decisions about the constitutionality of legislation. In France and Germany, both the making of public policy and the construction of constitutional law are products of sustained and intimate judicial-political interaction.

Public Policy Making and Public Policy Analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee S. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
Professional Class ◽  
The Many

This chapter reviews the development and growth of the policy-analytic profession. Historically, government decision makers have often called upon those with expertise to assist them in reaching their decisions. This chapter, however, concerns a new professional class of advisors that began developing during the 1950s in the United States. This new profession assists policy makers in understanding better their alternatives and relevant considerations for choosing among them. From here, the chapter offers some perspective on the research to date that has attempted to assess the effects of the profession—a perspective that emphasizes some important differences across the many types of governmental settings that utilize policy analysis, and the methodological difficulties that assessment efforts confront.

scholarly journals Management of the Influence of Organized Interests on Public Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Anželika Gumuliauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Public Policy Making ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Organized Interests ◽  
Methods Of Analysis

The article analyzes the management of the influence of organized interests on public policy. The article reveals the concept of organized interests, the essential differences in comparing the concepts of organized interests and interest groups. The article takes the view that organized interests are a more neutral concept that better explains the nature of all actors seeking to influence public policy-making. The author of the article is of the opinion that the concept of interest groups – due to the disagreement of scientists in defining it – causes a lot of confusion when comparing the results of different researches and using the theoretical insights of other scientists. Organized interests interact with other public policy makers to influence policy outcomes. This article analyzes the ways in which organized interests can influence public policy. According to the author of the article, by identifying the ways of influencing public policy, it is possible to envisage ways to manage that influence. The article applies methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization and comparative analysis of scientific literature.

scholarly journals THE SUCCESS OF POLICY ADVOCACY IN PUBLIC DIALOGUE AS A POLICY MAKING

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bintan Aulia Habibah ◽  
Ramaditya Rahardian ◽  
Panji Windu Arista
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Policy Advocacy ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Public Dialogue ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

The purpose of this study was to find out the success of policy advocacy in Public Dialogue as a policy making in Bojonegoro Regency. Based on the objectives, this research is a qualitative descriptive research which presents and provides a detailed description of the success of policy advocacy in Public Dialogue as a policy making. The research location was in the Office of Comunication and Information and Hall of Malowopati. A snowball technique was used to determine the informants. The method of collecting data was in the form of observation, interviews, and documentation. A triangulation technique was used to check the validity of the data. The Public Dialogue is an open space for the community and the Bojonegoro regency Government to communicate directly in order to influence the policy making. This research utilized an advocacy strategy from Roem Topatimasang to form a core circle, choose strategic issues, process data and information, influence policy makers, and monitor and assess programs. The research results found that Public Dialogue was one of the tools of the community to influence a public policy in Bojonegore Regency. Keywords: Public Dialogue, Policy Advocacy, Public Policy

A Comparative Study of SME Policies: Bangladesh and Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (02) ◽  
pp. 93-120
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mizanur Rahman ◽  
Nabeel Muhammad ◽  
Léo-Paul Dana
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Empirical Case Studies

This article attempts to understand the developments in policy making and financing for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of Bangladesh and Pakistan. From 1947–1971, Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan, as East Pakistan, while the remaining current Pakistan, is referred as West Pakistan. However, in 1971 a political turmoil resulted in a separation of two parts into two different nations. Since then, both have taken different routes to develop their economies along with heavy reliance on SMEs. This paper explores the key differences in financing and policy for SMEs in Bangladesh and Pakistan with a comparative study based on literature, empirical case studies and analysis of government policies and regulations, trying to identify some main takeaways from Bangladesh and Pakistan’s market for entrepreneurs, investors and policy makers.

scholarly journals Why policy needs history (and historians)

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Berridge
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Time History ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Direct Relevance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
Fresh Starts ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractPolicy makers like the idea of new initiatives and fresh starts, unencumbered by, even actively overthrowing, what has been done in the past. At the same time, history can be pigeonholed as fusty and antiquarian, dealing with long past events of no relevance to the present. Academic historians are sometimes bound up in their own worlds. The debates central to academe may have little direct relevance to the immediate concerns of policy making. The paper argues that history, as the evidence-based discipline par excellence, is as relevant as other approaches to evidence-based policy making. Case studies can show us the nature of that relevance. How to achieve influence for history also needs discussion. The relationship is not straightforward and will vary according to time and place. History is an interpretative discipline, not just a collection of ‘facts’. The paper discusses how historians work and why it is important for policy makers to engage, not just with history, but with historians as well. Historians too need to think about the value of bringing their analysis into policy.

Evidence-Based Policy Making in the Social Sciences

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Simulation Modelling ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social

The purpose of this edited book is to make the case for why the social sciences are more relevant than ever before in helping governments solve the wicked problems of public policy. It does this through a critical showcase of new forms of discovery for policy-making drawing on the insights of some of the world’s leading authorities in public policy analysis. The authors have brought together an expert group of social scientists who can showcase their chosen method or approach to policy makers and practitioners. These methods include making more use of Systematic Reviews, Random Controlled Trials, the analysis of Big Data, deliberative tools for decision-making, design thinking, qualitative techniques for comparison using Boolean and fuzzy set logic, citizen science, narrative from policy makers and citizens, policy visualisation, spatial mapping, simulation modelling and various forms of statistical analysis that draw from beyond the established tools. Of course some of the methods the book refers to have been on the shelves for a number of decades but the authors would argue that it is only over the last decade or so that increased efforts have been made to apply these methods across a range of policy arenas. Other methods such as the use of analysis of Big Data or new fuzzy set comparative tools are relatively more novel within social science but again they have been selected for attention as there are growing examples of their application in the context of policy making.

Constitutional Politics in the Gilded Age

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Les Benedict
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
American People ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Constitutional Politics ◽  
Personal Liberty ◽  
The Supreme Court

During the Gilded Age, constitutional issues pervaded the discussion of nearly all matters of public policy, including regulation of railroads, suppressing unsafe and fraudulent products, labor issues, and combating trusts and monopolies. The Democratic and Republican parties differed in their conceptions of federal power and state rights as well as on matters related to social order and personal liberty. They articulated these differences in political platforms and manifested them in their approach to public policy. The obsession with constitutional issues was not confined to the halls of Congress or the chambers of the Supreme Court. Constitutional discourse ran up from ordinary people and interest groups to public policy makers and down from policy makers seeking support based on fidelity to constitutional principles. Ordinary people influenced constitutional policymaking not only through voting but through various means of making their views known. Advocates used all types of media to make constitutional issues clear to the American people. These ranged from formal treatises aimed at the intellectual elite to cartoons, caricatures, songs, and screeds. Politicians articulated constitutional positions in political platforms, congressional addresses, pamphlets, political and commemorative addresses, and stump speeches. Justices of the Supreme Court eschewed technical and abstract language in constitutional opinions, addressing them to a more general public than they did in other areas of law. In the end, constitutional policy was not determined through legal determinations of the Supreme Court but by the political decisions of the American people.

scholarly journals Balanced and integrated e-government implementation – exploring the crossroad of public policy-making and information systems project management processes

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Melin ◽  
Elin Wihlborg
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Policy Making ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Critical Aspects

Purpose This paper aims to identify and elaborate on the various interpretations and implications of e-government as a process of public policy-making and as an act of information systems (IS) project management. The paper contributes to the search for a theoretical conceptualization by bridging policy project management and policy-making in public sector organizations at a crossroad of e-government to improve sustainable e-government research. Design/methodology/approach The research design of this paper focus on a model balancing the two research fields; public policy-making and analysis, and project management in the IS field. Through this model, four critical aspects of the processes are identified: objective, incentives/motivation, input/trigger and coordinative actor. These critical aspects are illustrated through findings from four case studies that are re-analyzed here. The cases show how the conceptual model through different dimensions can balance the two perspectives to reach a more sustainable outcome of e-government. Findings The paper shows that the two perspectives on e-government – public policy-making and project management – can be balanced and thereby reach a more sustainable outcome at this crossroad. The case studies re-visited in this paper are compared and serves as illustrations of these perspectives and different configurations of them in search for the crossroad. Research limitations/implications A main contribution of the paper is that e-government projects should be studied in, and taking both public policy-making and IS project management into account to be sustainable and successful. Even if the case studies have been conducted in Sweden, the conceptual results in this paper can be analytically generalized into other setting. However, there is a need for more comparative and conceptual studies in the field of e-government to shed light on the multi-faceted crossroads illustrated in this paper. Practical implications The paper offers new insights on how to integrate, bridge and even balance the two aspects of e-government policy aspects and projects management to achieve more sustainable and successful e-government. Originality/value The paper contributes to the literature by shedding light on the crossroad of policy aspects and IS project management approaches in the e-government field. The paper points at the need to further develop the understanding and design of e-government at the crossroad of information system models and political science concepts.

scholarly journals Muers, Stephen (2020). Culture and Values at the Heart of Policy Making. An Insider's Guide. Bristol: Policy Press.

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2021) ◽  
pp. 232-234
Author(s):  
Werner Jann
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
Policy Problems ◽  
Blind Spots ◽  
Administration Programs

This book is a forceful and entertaining argument why culture and values should be taken much more seriously, both by policy makers, but also in the curricula of modern Public Policy and Public Administration programs. The author is not a fundamental sceptic of managerial politics and administration, but he shows the inherent limits, contradictions, and blind spots of this kind of policy making. He succeeds particularly well because he can draw on many years of experience as a civil servant in different British ministries, in the Cabinet Office and the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. The book adds little to the conceptual and theoretical discussions of cultural factors in policy making, but it does provide many interesting examples of their significance and why it is dangerous to ignore them. It should be read by students in advanced public policy and public administration programs, who should find it helpful to see the technical solutions to all sorts of policy problems in a somewhat more realistic light.

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